Columbia: 1866-1878. Various bindings [some sheep, some later buckram], usual institutional marks. Condition of bindings varies, with several covers detached. Text normally clean and Very Good. The books include: a. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF 1866. Columbia: 1866..... More
Columbia, S.C. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer, 1859. vi, [2 blanks, 745-835, [1 blank], ix, [1 blank], xx pp. Bound with the following documents, in modern tan buckram, all in excellent condition, all with detailed Indexes. Near Fine. REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. 25, [1] pp. Stapled as issued. Wrappers absent, otherwise complete and Very Good. An appreciation of General Lee's decision to surrender, and to refrain from guerrilla warfare. More
[np: 1921?]. Original staples and printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Pages [231]-249 as issued. Loose, chipped along spine and blank edges. Text clean. Good+. More
Tallahassee, Fla. Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office, 1881. XVI, 1302 pp. Bound in modern legal buckram with title stamped on spine. Margins of title and a couple of other leaves reinforced. Rubberstamp on title page. Else clean and Very Good. The Digest includes the Constitutions of the..... More
Single page, entirely in ink manuscript. Old folds, irregular inner margin, light wear, Very Good. "I have a Battn. of six Companies of Foreigners and will be glad to have you with me as 1st Lt. to rank 1st or 2d. I would have offered you a Captaincy had..... More
Quarto broadsheet, printed and completed in manuscript on recto and verso. Signed by Crews and Massengale on recto and verso. Toned uniformly. Very Good. The verso is the affidavit of Crews, signed and sworn to before Massengale, attesting his entitlement to the funds. The printed 'Atlanta' location has been..... More
Raleigh: Cannon & Holden, Printers to the Convention, 1865. 94, [2 blanks], iii, [1 blank] pp, [bound with] JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, AT ITS ADJOURNED SESSION OF 1866. Raleigh: Cannon & Holden, Printers to the Convention. 1866. 192, III, [1 blank] pp [as issued]..... More
New Orleans: Rea's Steam Book and Job Printing Office, 1876. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 28pp. Postal cancel on rear wrapper, with manuscript address to "Lewis Sterling | "B[ayou] Sara, La." Wrappers dusted. A persistent discoloration appears on each leaf at the upper blank corner, with archival repairs. Otherwise, Good+..... More
New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office, 1867. 60, [25- advertisements], [3 blanks] pp. Original printed yellow wrappers [some extremity chipping]. Originally stitched, now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance, Gentilly Road]. Several institutional stamps, scattered foxing and dusting. The final [25] pages are advertisements from various..... More
Washington: William M. Morrison and Company, Law Publishers and Booksellers. 1857. ix, [1 blank] 662 pp. Later cloth, inner hinges reinforced, widely scattered foxing, old bookplate and 'duplicate' stamp on front pastedown. Very Good. Pages 393-633 print the official report of Dred Scott v. Sandford. This is the printing..... More
Washington: Blair & Rives, 1835. 16pp, disbound. Good+. With Benton's 'free frank' signature laid down at bottom blank margin of title page. The first great spokesman for the interests of the West, Benton was a pre-eminent Democrat and a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson, despite an early violent dispute..... More
[Richmond? 1863]. Single page, 3-1/4" x 3." February 17, 1863. Lightly toned, mounting remnants on blank verso. Very good. This brief note, written and signed by Campbell as Confederate Assistant Secretary of War, reads in full: "The sentence of death is to be executed friday 12.n. The wife of the..... More
[Amherst C.H. VA: 1858]. Manuscript broadside notice, oblong 7-3/4" x 4-7/8." Signed at the bottom in manuscript by T.W. Dillard, J.H. Ferguson, and R. L. Coleman, "Conductors of Elections." Discoloration at the blank bottom margin, else clear and bright. Good+. R.L. Coleman is likely Robert L. Coleman [c.1808-1894] of Amherst..... More
Greenwood Depot [VA]: 1859. [4] pp. Folio sheet, folded to 8" x 12-1/2." Timberlake's Letter, in neat ink manuscript, is on the first page. The recommendation to the House of Delegates is signed [all in Timberlake's hand] by fourteen officers of different regiments, several from the 47th Regiment Virginia Militia..... More
Nouvelle-Orleans: Au Secretariat General du Supreme Conseil, 1860. Original printed glazed yellow wrappers. 23, [1 blank] pp. Light wear, Very Good. More
[Washington: 1840]. 16pp, folded and untrimmed. Some dusting, else Very Good. Stanly was an interesting man and a long-serving Whig Congressman from North Carolina. After he was defeated for re-election in 1852 he moved to California, practiced law, and became a Republican. During the Civil War he was appointed Military..... More
Boston: James Munroe, 1839. 42, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound, moderately foxed. Good. This is Clay's speech supporting the Gag Rule: a Resolution that Congress should refuse to receive petitions to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Clay detested "ultra - abolitionists." Their persistent gnawing at the divisive issue..... More
Charlottesville, VA: 1841. Folio sheet, folded for mailing. Text in neat ink script on first page; pages 2 and 3 blank; addressed to Dundore on last page. Last leaf [seal remnant] spotted with small holes along folds [no effect on address portion, which is toned]. Text Very Good, overall Good+..... More
Claiborne County MS: 1857 [October 7]. 4to. [4] pp, entirely in ink manuscript. Signed with a flourish by the Clerk, Dan McDougall, and the Deputy Sheriff, G.R. Girault. Daniel McDougall [1813-1863], born in Schenectady, migrated to Port Gibson, Claiborne County. He was appointed Clerk of the Claiborne County Circuit Court..... More
New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, by R.G. Williams, 1836. 12mo, original printed green wrappers with wrapper title as issued. 12pp, stitched. Very Good. With a woodcut of "The Runaway." This issue prints material on runaway slaves, "the two castes," a letter from the Kentucky abolitionist James..... More
Single page, entirely in ink manuscript on ruled paper, with the signature of John Rodes. Very Good. Offered with the accompanying postal envelope, addressed "To the Presiding justice of the County court of Nelson county Lovingston VA." A note in the lower left portion of the envelope, to "please hand..... More
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[Nelson County VA: nd]. Four leaves on lined paper, 8" x 12-1/2." One small leaf [titled "Account A"] listing the horses taken by Sheridan's Raiders. All entirely in manuscript. Very Good. The Dillard homestead was in Nelson County, near Charlottesville and Waynesboro, and just east of Lexington. Three pages of..... More
1848-1856: 13-1/2" x 8-1/4," suede covers, pages numbered to 118. 1874-1885: 8" x 12", marbled paper over board. Page numbers stamped up to 640, but generally blank after page 190, Both with moderate soil and scattered foxing, Good+. These journals are both medical ledgers and, to a lesser extent, records..... More
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Williamsburg: Alexander Purdie and John Dixon, 1774. [4], 353, [3] pages. Scattered light to moderate foxing. Original calf [rubbed, boards detached but rehinged with tape internally], gilt lettered red morocco spine label. Contemporary owner signature and inscriptions. Good+. The Preface asserts the necessity "in this Colony" for this Treatise..... More